George Monbiot: how I escape climate despair | Audio Long Read
There is one question the environmental journalist and author George Monbiot is asked more than any other: how do you cope? When your job is to report on the climate crisis, where do you find hope? Mo...
5 Aug 202315min
You Ask Us: Is a new party possible, and has Andy Burnham avoided policing scandal?
Anoosh Chakelian, Freddie Hayward and Ben Walker answer listener questions.There have been multiple attempts to launch credible new political parties in recent years, but very few have taken hold. Why...
4 Aug 202325min
Rutherglen by-election: Labour’s key to unlock Scotland?
Yet another by-election could provide a key opportunity for Anas Sarwar’s Scottish Labour to regain lost seats in Scotland.The former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier has been recalled by her Rutherglen and Ha...
3 Aug 202313min
All politics is local, with Westminster council leader Adam Hug
When Labour won Westminster Council from the Conservatives in 2022, they made history.Now in power for the first time ever, the Labour council leadership is faced with the challenge and opportunity of...
31 Juli 202327min
The 1922 committee: inside the Conservatives’ assassination bureau | Audio Long Read
The Conservative Private Members Committee, informally known as the 1922 Committee (or the ’22), is the Tory confessional, its trade union and backbenchers’ common room. If that makes it sound chaotic...
29 Juli 202326min
You Ask Us: How would a Lib Dem return change parliament? And why Liz Truss was worse for Labour.
Anoosh Chakelian and Freddie Hayward answer your questions. After a routing in 2015, the Liberal Democrats have languished as a minor player in the Commons while the SNP have enjoyed the advantages of...
28 Juli 202316min
Are Labour and the Tories u-turning on green policies?
Keir Starmer has faced criticism for appearing to water down some key environmental policies, particularly in light of Labour's narrow defeat in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election. But is that...
27 Juli 202311min
What does a think tank actually do?
Shadowy forces, deep state actors in the pay of nefarious oligarchs... or an important part of the political ecosystem?Rachel Cunliffe meets senior figures from three think tanks from across the polit...
24 Juli 202330min
